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  • noun Danish novelist (1857-1919)

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  • Nya Dikter (1915) 1917: Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark, 1857-1919) 1917: Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark, 1857-1943) 1918: No award

    PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS ONLINE- a list 2008

  • Nya Dikter (1915) 1917: Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark, 1857-1919) 1917: Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark, 1857-1943) 1918: No award

    January 2008 2008

  • Gjellerup and Jakob Knudsen, but to Heidenstam, a Swede.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature: Nominations and Reports 1901–1950 2004

  • Or who can tell us much about Karl Adolp Gjellerup, awarded the 1917 prize "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals"?

    A Terrifying Honesty 2002

  • Or who can tell us much about Karl Adolp Gjellerup, awarded the 1917 prize "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals"?

    A Terrifying Honesty 2002

  • Gjellerup and Pontoppidan won the 1917 Nobel Prize in

    The Nobel Stamps of 1977 1977

  • In later life Gjellerup became fascinated by Buddhism, its teachings of Wisdom and achievements of Nirvana.

    The Nobel Stamps of 1977 1977

  • Among them are such names as Isbsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Pontoppidan, Brandes, Gjellerup, Hans Christian Andersen, and Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize winner for 1920, whose works I am publishing in America.

    Jenny: A Novel 1921

  • Gjellerup had at bottom only a few common bonds with the naturalistic school.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 1917 - Presentation 1917

  • After this first period of anti-theological battles, not marked by a profound originality, Gjellerup undertook a trip abroad during which he collected his thoughts and found his intellectual equilibrium.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 1917 - Presentation 1917

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